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Sheriff's Dept. searching for missing Dyer County woman
The Dyer County Sheriff's Department is currently investigating the disappearance of a 44-year-old mother of four after she was reported missing on Sunday.
Karen Johnson Swift was last seen at her home on Willie Johnson Road on Sunday, Oct. 30, at approximately 1:30 a.m.
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Search for missing mother continues
The Dyer County Sheriff is pulling out all the stops to find a missing mother.
44-year-old Karen Johnson Swift was last seen at her home in Dyersburg on Willie Johnson Rd. around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 30. Her car, a white 2004 Nissan Murano, was found a few hours later on Millsfield Highway near Harness Rd. with a flat tire.
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Police continue to search for missing TN mother
The Dyer County Sheriff's Department is continuing to search for a missing mother from Dyer County, TN.
According to the sheriff's department, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has been called in to assist the Dyer County Sheriff's Department in the search for 44-year-old Karen Johnson Swift.
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Search continues for missing woman
The search for Karen Johnson Swift entered its third day on Tuesday as Dyer County Sheriff's deputies, Sheriff Jeff Box, TBI agents, the Tennessee Highway Patrol and members of the FBI's Violent Crimes Task Force patrolled the area in hopes of finding the missing woman.
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Search continues for missing TN mother
Authorities in West Tennessee are searching by helicopter and on the ground for a missing mother of four after her vehicle was found abandoned with a flat tire.
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Mother of four missing
Investigators in Tennessee are searching for a missing mother of four who disappeared four days ago.

Karen Johnson Swift, 44, was last seen by her husband at her home in Dyersburg at approximately 1:30 a.m. on Oct. 30. Dyersburg is about 75 miles northeast of Memphis.

Swift's car, a white 2004 Nissan Murano, was found less than a mile away with a flat tire. The car has been sent to a crime lab in Nashville for forensic testing.
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New information in search for missing mother
FAST FACTS:
Karen Swift of Dyersburg has been missing since Sunday
Swift filed for divorce from her husband October 11th
Her abandoned car was found Sunday Morning with a flat tire
(Dyersburg, TN 112/2011) Marty Lamb was driving to work around 5:30 AM Sunday when he found Karen Swift's car with a flat tire on Millsville Road in Dyersburg. He says he didn't call police because he didn't think anything of it.
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Search contines for missing Dyer County mom
What happened to Karen Swift? It's a question on the mind's of families in the community of Dyer County. The 44 year old mother of four was last seen Sunday morning around 1:30 a.m. at her home.
In spite of grueling searches, few clues have emerged.
Authorities found her 2004 Murano on the side of the road near Harness and Millsfield Highway just about a quarter mile from her home. The SUV had a flat tire. Still, there's no sign of Swift.
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Son of missing woman says his dad didn't do it
Itís day three in the search for a mother in Dyersburg who just vanished. Investigators say the longer Karen Swift remains missing, the better chance this is a case of foul play. The mother of four was in the process of a divorce. Her family talked with abc24.com on Wednesday, November 2, 2011.
Karen Swift's oldest son, 21-year-old Preston Swift, says his parents had their issues, but they loved each other very much. He can't imagine his father harming his mother. He also says it's not in his mother's character to simply disappear.
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Still no clues into Swift disappearance
As the search for Karen Johnson Swift enters its fifth day, sheriff's investigators and other personnel continue to scour the countryside in hopes of finding some type of evidence that can lead to finding her.
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box and his investigators worked late Wednesday evening in their search for Swift.

Swift is a mother of four and a 1985 graduate from Walnut Ridge High School. Wednesday we traveled back to Swift's roots in Lawrence County, and spoke with people who know her. They say they refuse to give up on their friend.
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Desperate search for missing mother of four
A mother-of-four who vanished soon after coming home from a Halloween party was today revealed to have filed for divorce just three weeks ago.
Karen Swift, 44, was reported missing by friends after she was last seen by her husband at home in Dyersburg, Tennessee, early Sunday morning.
Police are now frantically searching for Mrs Swift, after her Nissan car was found abandoned less than a mile away from their home with a flat tyre.
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Still no clues into disappearance of TN woman
As the search for Karen Johnson Swift enters its fifth day, sheriff's investigators and other personnel continue to scour the countryside in hopes of finding some type of evidence that can lead to finding her.
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box and his investigators worked late Wednesday evening in their search for Swift.
"We are actually rechecking some of the areas we were in and we are also broadening our search," said Box.
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Karen Johnson Swift, 44, of Dyersburg, Tenn., was reported missing on Sunday by her husband. Her white 2004 Nissan Murano was later found on a nearby road, but authorities have been unable to locate her cell phone.
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Day five in missing mom
FAST FACTS:
Bad weather grounded helicopter crews and bloodhounds searching for Karen Swift
Investigators have been searching for her for five days
Going over evidence collected last night to see if they can connect it to Swift
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Sheriff's Dept. continues search
Dyer County Sheriff's investigators spent another day combing over information in an effort to find Karen Johnson Swift, who has been missing since Sunday.
Investigators and Sheriff Jeff Box were out searching for any evidence in the Swift case until 4:30 a.m. on Thursday and reconvened later to go over the information they have.

Deputies arrest man accused of poisoning Swift's dog
Dyer County Sheriff's deputies arrested a suspect on an outstanding felony warrant for animal cruelty while searching for evidence in the Karen Johnson Swift case.
John E. Hogshooter, 39, 285 Pennell Lane, was arrested by sheriff's officers on Saturday for aggravated animal cruelty while performing their search of a wooded area on Harness Road in Dyer County. Hogshooter is accused of poisoning two dogs in the area, one of which belonged to the Swifts.

Friday's search for Karen Johnson Swift
Members of the Dyer County Sheriff's Department, two Tennessee Highway Patrol Strike Teams, and members of the Shelby County Sheriff's Dept. performed a search of the Millsfield area for evidence in the case of Karen Johnson Swift. Swift, a 44-year-old mother of four was last seen early Sunday morning by her husband at their home on Willie Johnson Road after she reportedly returned from a Halloween party.
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Box: 'We are not giving up yet.Not at all'
The investigation into the missing person case of Karen Swift is entering its 10th day and the Dyer County Sheriff's Department is still working non-stop to try to solve the disappearance.
"We are not giving up yet," said Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box. "Not at all."
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Sheriff's Dept. releases photos of Swift's vehicle
Dyer County Sheriff Jeff Box said the investigation into Karen Swift's disappearance is continuing and released photos of Swift's vehicle where it was found on Millsfield Highway on the date of her disappearance.
The photos show Swift's white 2004 Nissan Murano pointed north on Millsfield Highway on the shoulder of the highway. Investigators believe the vehicle was originally headed south (into Dyersburg), but had a flat tire and the vehicle pulled across the oncoming lane and was parked in the opposite direction.
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Friend says police have found missing mom's clothing
Police trying to solve the disappearance of Karen Johnson Swift have recovered her clothing, the woman's friend reports. Swift, a mother of four, has been missing since her car was found abandoned on a rural Tennessee road on Oct. 30.
"They found her Halloween costume in the car. Some other articles of clothing that belonged to her -- a pair of jeans and a gray zip-up -- were found in some brush not far from her car. They confirmed [the clothing items] belong to her. They took DNA from her mother and compared it to DNA on the clothes," Swift's friend Laura Jane told The Huffington Post.
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Missing mother's jeans and zip up top found in bushes near abandoned car
Clothing discovered in bushes near the car of a missing mother-of-four belonged to her, a friend has claimed.
Karen Johnson Swift, 44, has not been seen for 12 days after she was reported missing by her husband on October 30.
A pair of jeans and a grey zip-up top were found by the side of the road close to where Mrs Johnson Swift's car was abandoned, a quarter of a mile from her home in Dyersburg, Tennessee.
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Prayer vigil for Swift planned tonight
The Dyer County community is invited to join together in prayer for Karen Johnson Swift this Thursday evening.
A prayer vigil will be held at 7 p.m., on Thursday, Nov. 10, at the YMCA soccer complex in Dyersburg.